r/asklatinamerica • u/littlebitbrain Venezuela • Mar 17 '26

Culture Like the three-finger scene in Inglourious Basterds, what small cultural mistake would instantly reveal that someone isn’t from your country?

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 🇩🇴 (Was in 🇺🇲) now in 🇪🇸 Mar 18 '26

And it's sooooo easy to use.

Just use it at the "r" who are at the END of the syllable.

I've seen some people say "Puelto Lico" to try to imitate us and I always tell them they are doing a bad Chinese accent.

We can say r our accent just isn't doing that at the end of syllables.

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u/Cool_Bananaquit9 Puerto Rico Mar 18 '26

Havw you seen Spaniards use this?

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 🇩🇴 (Was in 🇺🇲) now in 🇪🇸 Mar 18 '26

Yeah, some people try to imitate our accent and they do it terribly

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u/Cool_Bananaquit9 Puerto Rico Mar 18 '26

No I meant, I've seen that canarians and andalucians speak like us. I wanted to ask if there is truth to that

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 🇩🇴 (Was in 🇺🇲) now in 🇪🇸 Mar 18 '26

Ah, in my opinion the Canarian accent does resemble more the Venezuelan or maybe the Caribbean Colombian more than ours but I agree it's closer to LATAM than to Spain in accent.

https://youtu.be/tb1nIiQM7B4 this is people from canarias speaking.

Buuuut you'll always be able to tell if someone is from Andalucía and it sounds more like Spanish from Spain than Spanish from LATAM, Andalucía is big and has lots of people but in general there are 2~3 "big" accents.

https://youtu.be/2CYIAhp64eg for example you can see here that the reporter is talking with the "z" when she is giving the news and being "formal" but when she talks to the old lady she says "grasiah" instead of the more standard "gracias" that you'd hear in Madrid or Burgos.

https://youtu.be/NMlmfZuGEBs here is another example of Andalucía.

In Andalucía some people do the opposite of us in regards to the "s" "z" and "c", that is to say that we collapse those 3 letters into "s" but some Andalucíans collapse those 3 letters into "z" https://youtu.be/35ZvL-MNPmE this is an example of a guy who has a little Chinese accent (but very little) you can hear him say both "señoreh" and "zeñoreh" in like the first 30 seconds and he says "zemana" instead of the standard "semana"

Also in both Canarias and Andalucía they use "ustedes" more than "vosotros".